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Theatre review: Less Than Half is unsubtle plea to make space for difference

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Less Than Half

Less Than Half, acted by students of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, has a generous infusion of interpretative dance.

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival
Less Than Half
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Nafa Theatre Studio
Thursday, 8pm

Audiences might feel like they have seen this all before. There is a little bit of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008), Veronica Roth’s Divergent (2011 to 2013) and, at one point, even Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018), as young participants in a shady wellness centre struggle to retain parts of them that hurt but make them who they are.

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